Swap space is the area on a hard disk which is part of the Virtual Memory of your machine. It temporarily holds memory pages that are inactive. Swap space is used when your system decides that it needs physical memory for active processes and there is insufficient unused physical memory available. If the system happens to need more memory resources ...

Touchpad indicator is an applet icon on Unity panel that allows you to enable/disable touchpad via its drop-down menu or a shortcut key. Besides that basic function, the simple app supports: Disable touchpad when mouse plugged. Disable touchpad on typing. Natural scrolling. Circular scrolling. Two fingers vertical/horizontal scrolling. Install: Touchpad indicator is developed by atareao team, available in the PPA ...

Due to legal reasons, Ubuntu does not play DVDs out of the box. So this quick is going to show you how to play a DVD in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty LTS. Thanks to the open-source software libdvdread, it provides a library to read DVDs. Search for and install libdvdread4 in Ubuntu Software Center. Also install libdvdnav4 which provides an interface ...

This quick tip is going to show you how to install indicator-keylock, an indicator app that shows Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock status on panel. For a laptop without LED indicators, it’s good to have an indicator applet on system tray area that displays your lock keys status. indicator-keylock is the simple tool to do that. indicator-keylock indicates ...

May 23, 2014Comments Off on Install Minecraft Similar Game ‘Minetest’ in Ubuntu 14.04

Minetest is a free, open-source infinite-world block sandbox game and game engine inspired by Minecraft. It is designed to be simple, stable, portable, and lightweight enough to run on fairly old hardware. Minetest Features: Walk around, dig and build in an infinite voxel world, and craft stuff from raw materials to help you along the way. Simplistic Modding API that ...

May 20, 2014Comments Off on Display All Startup Applications in Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu doesn’t show all the start-up applications by default in its ‘Startup Applications’ manager. But you can easily display them by running a single command in terminal. Press on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, paste the code below and hit enter to run: sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop Enter your user password and press ‘enter’ again if ...

Quick tip for beginners: how to disable your laptop camera in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty. Also works on previous Ubuntu releases. You may ask why? Just in case, right? To get started, press on keyboard to open a terminal. When it opens, run this command to edit the config file: sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf Add a new line into the end to ...

May 17, 2014Comments Off on Set up A Basic HTTP File Server in Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 tip for beginners: set up a basic file server based on HTTP protocol for temporary use without installing any web server application. Python 2.7, a programming language comes pre-installed on Ubuntu, has a SimpleHTTPServer module which can be used to set up a very basic web server serving files relative to the current directory. Usage: Press to open ...